I Love You on and Valentines Day and Forever!!!

 My fabulous granddaughter in Ca. celebrating Valentines Day in style!!

Coloring Princesses

One of our favorite things to do, is coloring in drawings of Princesses that I like to draw for my granddaughters. It keeps them occupied for quite a while and we talk about fashion and color and design. Good times!!!

Winter Tea Party

Here is my daughter and my grandson ,  having a tea party while a nor'easter blows outside.I highly reccomernd this as a good way to while away a snowy afternoon. Make sure you eat plenty of cakes and cookies!!

This winter we got pounded with a lot of snow and ice!!! We'll be glad to see spring in March!!!!

My house in the autumn

I couldn't resisit putting in a picture of my house in the fall, my favorite season in Ct. Next I'll show you how it looks in February!!! It's been a long, snowy winter.

Colorful yarn octupi

 Here is a fun project for children 6years old and up. All you need is a tennis ball, a skein of yearn and elastics to tie off the braids. Wrap the yarn around a peice  of cardboard about 20inches in length.

Then remove the yarn from the cardboard and insert the tennis ball. Tie off the tennis ball and seperate the yarn into 8 "legs". Braid the legs and tie off the braid ends with elastics. Then add bows and a face to finish. My granddaughters loved making these, they can be any color and give the kids a real sense of accomplishment, plus, they are fun and funny to make!!!

Holiday chickadee

my felt holiday chickadee, just like the black-capped birds that come to my window!
Here are a few more ormaments I created this year. My grandson's favorite tale is "The Three Little Pigs', so I created  some fun felt ornaments for his tree. Also I used the birds from my window as "live models" for my cardinals and blue jays!!Great fun!!!